rm_parts_of_speech {textTools}

Delete rows in a text.table where the word has a certain part of speech

Description

Delete rows in a text.table where the word has a certain part of speech

Usage

rm_parts_of_speech(
  x,
  text,
  pos_delete = c("adjective", "adverb", "conjunction", "definite article",
    "interjection", "noun", "noun phrase", "plural", "preposition", "pronoun",
    "verb (intransitive)", "verb (transitive)", "verb (usu participle)")
)

Arguments

x

A text.table created by as.text.table().

text

A string, the name of the column in x used to determine deletion of rows based on the part of speech.

pos_delete

A vector of parts of speech to delete. At least one of the following: 'adjective', 'adverb', 'conjunction', 'definite article', 'interjection', 'noun', 'noun phrase', 'plural', 'preposition', 'pronoun', 'verb (intransitive)', 'verb (transitive)', 'verb (usu participle)'

Value

A text.table, with rows matching a part of speech deleted.

Examples

rm_parts_of_speech(
as.text.table(
  x = as.data.table(
    list(
      col1 = c(
        "a",
        "b"
      ),
      col2 = c(
        tolower("The dog is nice because it picked up the newspaper."),
        tolower("The dog is extremely nice because it does the dishes.")
      )
    )
  ),
  text = "col2",
  split = " "
),
text = "col2",
pos_delete = "conjunction"
)